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Climate Change Scientists And The Public Debate

Nov 18, 2014   |   by Jane Lindholm & Sage Van Wing   |   VPR

Among scientists, there is little debate any longer about whether human activity contributes to climate change. However, in politics, and on TV, it is still a matter of debate. So how do the physicists, engineers, and climatologists who do work in this field engage with the public debate?

We talk to Mary Albert, professor of Engineering at Dartmouth and executive director of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office, and Jennie Stevens, Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at the University of Vermont.

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